Yesterday morning, St Edmund’s Catholic Academy came together as a school to hold a Holocaust Memorial assembly, in remembrance of the millions of people who were murdered under Nazi Persecution and in the subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

A number of students read a short piece about how people suffered during this most horrendous of times, but also how they came together, provoking deep thought about the part that can be played in challenging hatred and creating a safer, better future.

A candle was lit and the photographs of survivors were displayed as a mark of respect to them and also, to those who had died.